Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Vittorio Prato as sexy Guglielmo in Geneva

Alexandra Kadurina and Vittorio Prato

Italian barihunk Vittorio Prato shows off some skin as Guglielmo in German director David Bösch's new production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. The cast also includes Veronika Dzhioeva as Fiordiligi, Alexandra Kadurina as Dorabella, Steve Davislim as Ferrando, Monica Bacelli as Despina and Laurent Naouri as Don Alfonso. Bösch's vision in this production is to bring out both the dark cynicism of Da Ponte’s cruel game of lime and Mozart’s luminous music of love. He figures that if "all women are like that," then "all men are too." The moral of this production is that if love’s a game, the it’s worth learning how to play it. There are performances remaining on May 10 12 and 14. Tickets are available online. Next up for Prato is Puccini's five-partMessa a Quattro voci con orchestra, orMessa di Gloriaat La Monnaie with tenor Sergey Romanovsky. There is a single performance on June 14th. Tickets are available online.

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